FREETOWN – A Christian pastor has found one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds — weighing 706 carats — in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kono region.
The stone, a photograph of which was posted on the president’s official website, is being stored in the country’s central bank, government sources said.
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